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Career
Reagan graduated from Eureka College in the worst year of the Great Depression, 1932, and was unable to carry out his plan of finding work in Chicago. He finally got a job as a radio announcer in Davenport, Iowa. Radio was then a fast-growing business and this first foot in the door soon led to a better radio job with station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa. Reagan described, or rather reenacted, professional baseball games for his radio audience, even though he was sitting in a studio. Telegraph messages would arrive from the Chicago Cubs' stadium indicating that a batter had struck out, singled, stolen a base, or scored, and Reagan would then imaginatively recreate the scene, making up the details as though he were present, and adding colorful touches about the weather, the crowd, and the players.
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After four years in Des Moines, and with a...
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